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Definition of Centre of immersion
1. Noun. (physics) the center of mass of the immersed part of ship or other floating object.
Category relationships: Natural Philosophy, Physics
Generic synonyms: Center Of Mass, Centre Of Mass
Lexicographical Neighbors of Centre Of Immersion
Literary usage of Centre of immersion
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Ship-building in Iron and Wood by Andrew Murray, Robert Murray, Augustin Francis Bullock Creuze (1863)
"... of water displaced by her body, which is hence called the "centre of buoyancy,"
or "centre of immersion," as well as the " centre of the displacement. ..."
2. Hunt's Yachting Magazine (1853)
"Now, if we observe the position of the centre of immersion in this state, we
shall find it vertical to that of gravity, as G, D. The body would descend ..."
3. The Sailor's Word-book: An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, Including by William Henry Smyth (1867)
"centre of immersion, the mean centre of the part immersed. (See CENTRE OF CAVITY.)
Astronomically, immersion means the disappearance of a heavenly body when ..."
4. A Supplement to the Imperial Dictionary, English, Technological, and by John Ogilvie (1855)
"It is also called the centre of cavity, and sometimes tho centre of immersion,
or centre of buoyancy.—Centre of attraction, the point to which bodies tend, ..."
5. Spons' Dictionary of Engineering, Civil, Mechanical, Military, and Naval by Edward Spon, Oliver Byrne (1872)
"... < being the angle made by the radins of the wheel with the vertical, at the
centre of immersion of the floats : this radins being 11 • 844 ft., ..."
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